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Ruscarius

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 270783ITIS 167421key worms:270783
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167421 via WoRMS external link

Ruscarius is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 266 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2023, across 2 taxa under it.R

266
observations
266
records
1959–2023
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
Photograph of Ruscarius
Photo · David Starr Jordan , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Ruscarius creaseri most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:270783")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 2 taxa · Ruscarius creaseri most observed
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Cottidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Matt Dunkle · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cottus aleuticus · source
  • Photo · David Starr Jordan , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Ruscarius” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354666321
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

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